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The game ended with them returning to home base, consulting with the wizard NPC I have on hand for magical exposition dumps, and...

Naturally, my group has dubbed the one guy they've encountered a "werebacon." He also beat their ass -- they had no magic items and no...

This is very true and as a result the agendas do function more like mechanics in some ways, I agree. The problem is that there isn't...

Principles (at least in Apocalypse World) not advice or suggestions. They are instructions. The game says, "Always say what your...

Well, not that I entirely disagree but lots of system have definite 'cans' and 'shoulds' in them, like lists of ways that a GM might...

Because they are different parts of what makes an RPG, and represent two very different design approaches to the same ends. So while...

This fuzziness is precisely why I asked the question. I have the same issues.

I was going to take a stab at it but the difference is less clear than it was in my head. I suppose there is a spectrum: "When you...

One is a mechanic and the other isn't? We aren't just talking about results here - the difference is the tool, not the output, and...

This is another place where experience with Agon is useful. There can be a very definite tendency to try to find the 'right'...

Yeah, I think you are definitely right about Agon 2e. The Island for each session kind of sets up parameters in a way similar to what...

"Mechanic" is cognate with "machine". Something being mechanical means it happens via a process that doesn't require discretion or...

So, mechanics. When I use the word I mean rules and systems, but some people (and I don't just mean here), extend the definition to...

I don't think moving some authority to the players makes a game intrinsically narrative in focus. It may have been somewhat uncommon in...

Ahh, no, those aren't my categories at all, simply the ones most often used in coversations like these. One can't go dropping in new...